Working towards Health Equity and Access in Rural Nepal
Posted in News on Jul 18th, 2010
Posted by Bibhav Acharya In January 2010, we received an enthusiastic email from a Nepali living in Norway who was impressed with Nyaya’s work and wanted to fundraise for Achham. A few months later, Chhavi Raj Bhatt and his team raised over $10,000 at a concert and birthday party in Oslo. We asked them a [...]
Posted in Mortality Reviews, Patient Stories on Jun 7th, 2010
Posted by Duncan Maru, MD, PHD All too often in our work, we are confronted by deaths of young people that are devastating by their impact on families and communities and by the fact of their being so preventable. The death of this young pregnant woman and her child, described below in the mortality report [...]
Posted in Patient Stories, Social Justice and Health on Nov 19th, 2009
Posted by Dan Schwarz, following conversations with Ruma Rajbhandari In a blog post last month (“Severe Storms in Achham”), we related the story of a two year old girl who had suffered a traumatic head injury after falling from a height of one storey. At the time, we were happy to report that, despite an [...]
Posted in Patient Stories, Social Justice and Health on Sep 1st, 2009
Posted by Bibhav Acharya One of Nyaya Health’s board members, Bibhav Acharya, reflects on a patient’s story from the summer of 2008. She went into cardiac arrest as she was carried into the clinic. The men carrying her said she had been bitten by a snake. We put everything on hold and rushed to assist [...]
Posted in News on Aug 15th, 2009
Posted by Shefali Oza Nyaya Health thanks the Indian Embassy in Nepal for its generous donation of an ambulance. With the addition of this ambulance, we will now be able to transport patients free of charge to regional hospitals between 5 and 15 hours away for life-threatening conditions we are unable to treat at Bayalpata [...]
Posted in Social Justice and Health on Oct 15th, 2008
Posted by Bibhav Acharya Dr. Jhapat Thapa (Nyaya’s Medical Director) and I were summoned to Mangalsen, the district headquarters of Achham, to attend a district-wide meeting of NGOs and government bodies to tackle HIV. Mangalsen is a 7-hour hike from Sanfebagar and our trip started at the far left of the picture above and we [...]
Posted in Clinic Staff, Logistics and Management on Apr 21st, 2008
Posted by Tenzing Tekan 6:30am Wake up at sunrise. Carry water to the house from the spring and get washed and cleaned. While I am washing, the night watchman brings a paper with a question from the overnight shift Assistant Nurse-Midwife regarding a dehydrated infant. Since it is a simple intervention, I write a reply [...]
Posted in Social Justice and Health on Apr 8th, 2008
Posted by Bibhav Acharya Chris, Mahendra, Bikram and I hiked up to Prabha to have conversations with folks who live there about their access to healthcare and about Nyaya’s clinic, which was opening soon. As we watched, listened and spoke, we learned a little more about suffering, health, nyaya (Nepali word for justice), and we [...]